Constructing
our own table-top solar power beaming demonstration unit took quite a
bit of work by a team of several people. Our unit was finished in time
for a grand debut at the National Space Society's 2008 International
Space Development Conference in Washington DC, the weekend of May 29th-
June 1st, 2008.

This unit has been displayed several times
since, at the New Space Conference in Washington DC., and at two
conferences in Orlando, Fl (including ILEWG 2008 and ISDC 2009),
and at the International Symposium on Solar Energy from Space in
Toronto, Canada, September 10, 2009.

Our Follow-on Project: An Online Kit to help other groups to produce additional demo units

One
unit is not enough! We need a lot of people to see this or similar
demonstration units, if we are going to affect public opinion at large
in the direction of support for Space-Based Solar Power as the most
attractive and effective way to solve the World's increasing energy
problems, in a way that respects and protects Earth's environment.

Thus,
it has been our goal from the outset to produce an "Online Kit" so that
many other groups could duplicate, and perhaps improve upon, what we
have done. More Demo Kits in more hands means more people will have the
opportunity to see one.

The Moon Society's desktop Solar Power
Beaming Demonstration model was designed as one of a kind. Thus, it has
taken some time to produce a set of diagrams, instructions, parts
source lists, etc. that would allow others to closely replicate the
model we produced, or to improve upon it.